Thank God Ledge

Who's walked it?

Who's crawled it?

I crawled.

Hand traverse 1st half, crawled 2nd half (following)

I crawled it back in the late 70's.

However, an early climbing friend of mine had a very unfortunate event occur while he was following the traverse. This being their 1st wall, they were clueless about lowering the haul bag across the traverse. So they left it sitting on the belay ledge with the haul line attached to the second as he followed. After about half way across, the stacked haul line began to fall off the ledge with the bag and below the traversing second. When the system went tight the force jerked the bag off the ledge and sent it for a rope length fall onto the harness of the seconding climber. The resulting shock caused the second to come off the ledge and take a nasty pendulum fall. Anyway, they figured out a solution and made it off the top with a very scary story to tell!

Then switched to hand traverse for the second half.

Stu Ritchie wrote:I crawled it back in the late 70's. However, an early climbing friend of mine had a very unfortunate event occur while he was following the traverse. This being their 1st wall, they were clueless about lowering the haul bag across the traverse. So they left it sitting on the belay ledge with the haul line attached to the second as he followed. After about half way across, the stacked haul line began to fall off the ledge with the bag and below the traversing second. When the system went tight the force jerked the bag off the ledge and sent it for a rope length fall onto the harness of the seconding climber. The resulting shock caused the second to come off the ledge and take a nasty pendulum fall. Anyway, they figured out a solution and made it off the top with a very scary story to tell!

Holy Cow, man.

That's the second nasty lower out story I've heard.

I walked it. Climbed it with a three man party back when I was 16. I followed that pitch third and the guy who cleaned it didn't clip me thru all the pieces. Good fun. I was young and stupid enough to be concerned but not freaked out of my mind, which would've been the appropriate response.

Walked it like a woman.

I did it in 1993, my partner lead it and was so excited he forgot the haul line so I crawled it with the haul line coiled up on my back and the haul bag attached to the back of my harness on a 10ft leash pulling me off, great fun! I never forget moment,,,

Late 70s I walked the first half then hand traversed .Every time I reached down to clip a fixed pin it felt as if I would pitch. I looked down and saw foot holds so I jumped and caught the ledge. I did say watch me once or trice before hand.
Next time I will walk it with back to the wall.